Picturing War: Memory, Materiality & Medicine in An Irish Nurse’s WW1 Archive  

2 Oct 2023

This exhibition is a visual narrative of the experience of an Irish nurse in WW1.

Agnes Maguire (1891—1977) was a trained nurse who joined the Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve in 1916. Her photograph albums and archival materials - including QAIMNS nursing cape, medals, souvenirs, hospital-ship menus - offer a unique insight into the social, cultural and medical dimension a nurse’s wartime experience in Egypt and Salonika.

This interdisciplinary exhibition includes a series of panels contextualising the war in Salonika, the medical conditions, and the response to the war from a local Cork and UCC perspective.

Dr Laura McKenna, granddaughter of Agnes Maguire, is curating this exhibition. Laura works in Medical Humanities in the School of Medicine in UCC.

To find out more, visit Current Exhibition | University College Cork (ucc.ie)

Dr McKenna will open this exhibition and we look forward to welcoming family and colleagues to UCC on 12th October.

To join us at the exhibition opening on Thursday 12th October, please RSVP to lmckenna@ucc.ie

The exhibition will run for six weeks until 23rd November.

For more on this story contact:

lmckenna@ucc.ie